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Hello. Im [inaudible] librarian at the library of congress. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival, we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of Congress Makes it easy to do this every year, but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. But we cant take for granted that this event will continue to ex...

Project that youre work on. This is something you have continued past the life of the book. Could you talk a little bit about what youre doing there and how its succeeded since the book and the movie have come out . So. Yeah so, yeah, the human computer project. Essentially, what i was so surprised to discover doing the research for Hidden Figures is how many women were involved in computing, as i talked about before. Not just at nasa, but at all of these other organizations. And so this is really a way to try and catalog all of the women who were involved in doing this work in the early days ...

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[inaudible conversations]y herea. Details are on the screen and on the back of your program and when you finish making the contributions violates your cell phone now onto the main events i would like to introduce the cochair of the National Book festival david rubenstein. [applause]e book how many people here have read the book and are going to readad the book. How many people are going to buy the book today . [applause] thank you very much for coming. A native of middletown ohio and graduate of the middletown high school. He then went to Yale Law School. They are here somewher somewhere along...

Eight people dead, more than 150 injured an accident, not crime so says a judge in the case against amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian. He was at the controls when the train careened off the tanks in Port Richmond more than two years ago. Thank you for joining us at 11 00. Im lucy noland. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live at the 30th street station and the victims youve talk with are not pleased to say the least, dave. Report roar lucy, one local victim we talked tonight said he was floored by the judges decision to dismiss the charges against Brandon Bostian in that crash. Tonight, hes speaking ...